DOT EARTH – On CH4, Poverty and CO2

In a Dot Earth blog entry on African development, Andy Revkin of the New York Times refers to our work on the importance of energy gases….

Name the Scientist

The New York Times created an interactive game “name the scientist” in which Jesse Ausubel is the wrong answer to the 4th question. Richard Dawkins is the right answer. Still…

Reflecting on the passing of Norton Zinder

Pioneering microbiologist Norton Zinder, a great friend of the Program for the Human Environment, passed away 3 February 2012. Nicholas Wade recapped Norton’s career beautifully for the New York Times….

Leo and Deep Carbon

…Da Vinci DNA Project in Vienna’s Kurier; and –the Deep Life work of the Deep Carbon Observatory in hard copy of the New York Times (posted 19 Dec online).  …

Passing of Arthur Singer

Our great friend of many years, Arthur L. Singer, passed away 25 December 2019. The New York Times published an accurate, informative obituary. Art’s own memoir is posted here. We…

National Geographic on eDNA

An article by Steve Leahy for National Geographic about our National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA New DNA tool ‘changes everything in marine science’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/12/edna-environmental-dna-counts-fish-changes-marine-science/ Also in the news net:…

Tea Barcode published

…journal Scientific Reports. Together with tea expert Selena Ahmed, Tufts University, and senior plant biologist Damon Little, The New York Botanical Garden, they analyzed DNA barcodes of 146 tea products…